Bulk Reef Supply Franks Tanks Faiptasia works great nothing has worked for me but this miracle product. I still have it I need to buy more but the areas I’ve hit which were biblical plague amounts have not come back and it’s been a month all my corals are looking happy and healthy now that they aren’t getting stung.
Kenan Bakin Bergia is your best option, been in the hobby 15 yrs, have had aptasia at least 3 times and berghia ALWAYS does the trick. Only thing is it will die at some point so only get a cpl small ones, especially if it’s a tank less than 75 gallons. They will eat them all just give them time.
I definitely had this problem, but 2 real peppermint shrimp did some MAJOR damage to them. I still had a hunt and peck but nothing compared to what it had been.
Wild-caught Gulf of Mexico (Florida Keys) Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni, perhaps?) absolutely eradicated my Aiptasia. However, after the aiptasia were gone, they immediately went on to devouring my Euphyllia (Fimbriaphyllia) - I witnessed this first hand investigating the tank at night. I ended up deciding to move the Euphyllia to another tank. They didn't bother any other corals I had in the tank.
Mostly have to learn to manage it. Have had it for 7 years in my 180 reef. Never got out of control and so far the best have used is boiling water in a syringe. Even used a high powered laser beam at one point. It burned paper and other things immediately. When I added the shrimp my marine grouper ate them. Ordered LARGE ones and of course received miniature. Another thing that works was soaking the rock in a bucket of vinegar for 30 minutes and all done. But have a LOT of rock and that is expensive but it does work.
I got some new Chaeto for my refug and there was one on it the next day. I left it because I was gonna take care of it the next day but that morning, there were 4!! I took the chaeto out. Lol
Great video! Recently found one aiptasia on a Cynarina base. After watching this video I will tackle eradicating it this morning! Glad you covered all the topics I've heard about since getting into the hobby.
Kents Part B from the 2 part dosing completely disintegrates aiptasia instantly (and coral) if you squirt it directly on them. Luckily I had some space between all my aiptasia and corals so this worked great. Proceed with caution. Lemon juice on a few at a time for a couple days will burn them to death also and is less risky.
I’m gonna keep commenting this.... guys! Branch out to the UK / Europe. We NEED you. All your advice and equipment is relevant and needed here, it’s just the voltage/current change on electrical. There’s a couple of really good coral places here that would benefit from your presence here too. Your approach to the hobby and sales/service will change the game here.
I bought 5 peppermint shrimp and added them to my sump for a few days. First I let them get hungry for a couple days. Then I started adding small rocks/frags with aiptasia on them. I wanted to make sure they went for the aiptasia and not the corals as I've heard stories of them nipping at your corals too. Long story short, they went to town on the aiptasia, didn't touch the corals, and got promoted to the display tank. This was last week and I'm already seeing a significant decrease in aiptasia.
WOW! That is an awesome plan! That way they they will be forced to go after them and cant get attacted by any predators! only problem is my sump is only about 10 to 15 gallons and have a few big rocks that wont fit:(
Never tried anything else, but I added a matted filefish and he went straight at the aiptasia. He's a voracious eater and the pest is gone. He eats frozen food well and two years in, no aiptasia at all. Guess I'm lucky, but I'll take it!
Well I am glad youtube recommended this to me. I am new reefer and my Kenya tree has a piece of this on it. I have seen it for last 2 months but didnt realize thats what it is.. =/ I guess I need to just remove it which sucks its one of the only coral I have right now
I have two Aptasia that I keep blasting with aptasia x but they keep coming back, probably had them for a couple of years and luckily they haven’t spread. I’m going to try the Kalwasa and putty you guys mentioned. Thanks for all the advice, love your videos 👍
Started with just1 in my 7 month old tank, by the time I realized it might become a problem I could see around 10. I ordered aiptasia x and blasted about 15 of them but that only pissed them off and soon I had about 20. I then picked up a file fish and 2 peppermint shrimp from LFS. It took about 4 or 5 days before they got to work but after about 10 days I have none.
There a lots of live options to help eliminate them. I've aiptasia X for a few small one's but the live options help to keep them under control for the long haul.
I used AptasiaX for my couple I've had...saw it...nuked it straight away with ApX. I never let them get a foothold. Years later never had them come back.
There is multiple peppermint shrimp in the industry. Lysmata wurdemanni Animal Description DescriptionLysmata wurdemanni, commonly known as the peppermint shrimp, is a species of shrimp. Wikipedia Scientific name: Lysmata wurdemanni Phylum: Arthropoda Higher classification: Lysmata Order: Decapods Rank: Species Species: L. wurdemanni. Peppermint Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni - Aquarium Depotaquariumdepot.com › peppermint-shrimp-lysmata-wur... The Saltwater Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) is also known as Veined Shrimp and Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp. It is a natural predator of the nuisance anemone- aiptasia, while some peppermint shrimp may have more of a taste for the anemone than others. MINIMUM TANK SIZE: 30 gallons CARE LEVEL: Moderately Easy FOOD/DIET: Carnivore
Shrimp ate all of mine and then they died. My other shrimp were fine. But the Aiptasia were erradicated. I'm restarting a 710 liter and this time I'm going really slow. One, I'm lazy. Two, I just want to get it really right this time.
I used them in my 80g shallow I think they are eating my corals at night. Aiptasia population is down but maybe with possible coral eating shrimp. They at least pick at it
I got a few from zoa frag I thought I had it really cleaned off but I guess I didn't. I have a few in my tank but before they get out of hand I bought three B nudis to eat them.
not mentioning at all that filefish very high percentage they start eating coral, copperbands and peppermint shrimp eating coral and anemones as well. also not mentioning scats, they will clear aiptasia from a tank in one day. some eat coral as well but others are in big displays and are used as rental fish.
Fair point. There are several comments sharing the same sentiment, however we've been pretty fortunate to not have experienced coral pecking from either of those. Likely related to how heavily we feed the tank and just how many aiptasia were there to begin with.
Also, if you have coral in your take, watch out with the file fish. I had to get rid of a file fish as it was nipping at my welso metallic rainbow folded brain. Decision, keep a fish I paid $20 for or keep a coral that is worth $700. Good bye file fish. Besides, it was not touching the aptasia at all.
have had aptasia 3 or 4 times during my career. none for the past five years or so. i've always used 3 or 4 peppermint shrimp, tank is about 120 gallons. They come out at night and in about a month or two they are gone, each time ive used them. have done all the glue stuff etc., but they don't go away. The shrimp love them. don't waste your time with anything else.
As a new reefer I accidentally solved my aiptasia problem by getting a coral banded shrimp and corals that had berghia in them, neither of which I knew were useful for managing aiptasia. Aiptasia was gone within weeks. I got lucky!!
I have had aptasia a few times and introduced Berghia nudibranchs. It takes a while but they definitely work. An excellent site for general information and purchasing them is Reeftown.com
First saltwater tank, purchased a live rock from petco. Noticed this weird anemone on the rock. It looks exactly like aptasia. Removed the rock, I will not be buying my aquarium needs from petco from now on.
"if you buy propogated corals from a reputable propogation facility" I got all my corals from WWC and trusted that i wouldn't get aptasia but here I am.
I would add another line: not understanding corals that can fight aipstasia. You can get galaxea, hydnophora, elegance coral... those can flourish even if you have aipstasia. I’ve gotten to the point I’d rather limit my coral selection than keep worrying about aipstasia to some degree.
I have a sixth sense for finding them, propably out of fear for them.. I really hate them after loosing to them 20 years ago.. My solution is discovering them in time when there is still a sinle one or two, and act the same minute, no matter if you dont really have time for it.. I have a 1 ml syringe filled with extra strong vinegar. Here in Norway we can get 40% and I think really 15-20 will work. I tip the syringe with the blue ekstra thin needle meant for intramuscular injections, the green meant for adults is just giving to big doses. I just prick them right in the mouth and press, holding the stamp part, not the tube part. If you try to hold it normaly you will miss, these devils are too fast for a normal injection method. That is also why I use the small syringe, since if I miss I havent destroyd my water chemistry, and 1 ml is enough for the strongest biggest hulking aptasia if you hit and fill him. So far in my latest setup 65g cube with mix of real live rock that I knew could have some aptasia I managed to keep them of, just killing 2 babies and its now months since I saw ANY at all.. I learned this trick from an really old reefer who died now from Corona (may his memory be a blessing) and I saw it worked on my old tank, but it was too late when I learned it, they had me cornered.
Tried a whole bunch of things, aiptasia x, F aiptasia, joes juice, nudibrachs, manjo wand. What really killed them off is the peppermint shrimp. I've must of been lucky and got a good hungry batch.
@@carlosmontenegro8501 As of today, I've had a trio in my 65g tall for a month. Two in the display and one in the refugium in the sump. So far they had not bother any corals except for when I spot feed. That's when they steal food.
Love that BRS goes into detail about how Aiptasia killing products can actually make the issue worse. I had a system that was at "break down the tank" levels because of those so called "cures". Started off with 10-20 and went to literally hundreds (maybe more) within a few months while using them. I've tried them all and only watched the problem get worse. Never plugged them the way that BRS suggests, but for certain just using the goop made what was initially a nuisance into a near disaster. Berghia nudis did the trick for me. Two orders of nudis cleared out the entire tank of any noticeable Aiptasia. Money well spent and my go to for Aiptasia.
Interesting. My tank is over 2 yrs old and I've been battling aiptasia for several months. I've put 15 peppermints in (not all at once) and haven't seen any decrease in aiptasia.
Have had small aiptasia outbreaks in three separate tanks. 2-3 peppermints in a fluval 5, two to three weeks , all gone, none seen for 2 years. Aiptasia eating filefish - leather jackets in two other tanks. Gone! Weir on my display was a forest, cleaned in 3 days, none seen anywhere for months. Another one in a 30 long, cleaned up a scattered amount. Never had much luck with copperbands though.
5:45 Gwad...... I wish you guys were the angel on my shoulder at the store when I got the bogo sale of coral..... ended up with a leather I felt bad for, ended up having a pyramid snail which killed my 6" clam!!!! $^#%#% LOVE YOUR ADVICE, wish I heard it sooner.
Glad I'm not the only one. Theres a bunch of corals way more aggressive and rapidily spreading, but we don't go crazy to kill those, we buy them while we exterminate entire tanks to kill aiptasia ahahhah
I had one or maybe two on a rock so I covered them with super glue and now I have about 15 or so all around the same spot! I dont get it! I did take rock out once and scrub off bubble algae so is it possible I spred it scrubbing out of the tanks and rinsing well with tank water? Nudis always seem to leave one or two behind so I cant seem to ever eradacate them and when I scrubbed the rock I dont think I had the aptaisia at that time either! Franks gets so thick and you end up having to throw away! I think Ill do the joes juice and maybe try thicker glue and then epoxy! . Is BRS glue thicker then super glue? I am also scared of treating that whole area. Is it going to mess with my chemisty(alk)since its basically kalk? Should I not dose soda ash the same day I treat it?
I trained my filefish to eat aiptasia by quarantining it with a rock full of aiptasia I got from a buddy before adding it to the DT. It quickly figured out that they made for a tasty morsel.
I was at a LFS and saw a giant aiptasia in the corner I thought was an anenome I wanted (Im brand new to reefing) I took a pic of it and later saw this video and realized it was a monster 5 inch parasite
there’s one particular lfs in my area who likes to keep aipatasia in their fish tank. lol. guess he sells them? he used to have rampant amount in his coral tanks... but i haven’t been there for over a year. lol. and people wonder why he keeps relocating.
Everybody hates on Aiptasia X but it worked perfectly for me. That said...next tank I will be curing dry rock instead of buying live and dipping everything that goes into the tank
I had a tank full of aptasia. The more I tried to eradicate them the more they multiplied. I was disgusted and ready to give up. My last shot was an Australian Strippy. He wasn’t cheap but, in 4 weeks I have ZERO aptasia and he’s only a little guy. He is my absolute hero and I will always keep one in my tank. Took forever to find one but we’ll worth the effort and the cost.
I purchased a ricordea on line and dipped it. 4 months later an aptasia popped up out of no where. I’m like what the hec!! It is now in a super glue tomb!
What worked best for me was a raccoon butterfly. You need to watch it, obviously, when the aiptasia are gone, because it may start to go after your corals.
I just recently eradicated it from 3 tanks(all connected) and it took a long time. I tried Joe's Juice and Aptasia X both of these killed and spread it. I tried peppermint shrimp, but didn't realize the Neon Dottyback in the DT was killing them. I also got a Copperband , but my Sailfin & Purple tangs would casually bully it and died after 3 months without touching any aptasia. Went to LFS to purchase a Filefish and the guy told me he didn't recommend it and that I was better off leaving the aptasia in the tank(wtf). I was so discouraged the aptasia got outta control and killed well over $1000 in coral. I was ready to just shut it down and then I found Berghia Nudibranchs. I bought 7 nudibranchs let them run its course. It was very hard to look at the tank, but then it just slowly started to disappear and its finally gone after 4 months!!!
Another issue - it seems everything bloody eats nudis! Brittlestars, Bristleworms, amphipods eat nudi eggs.... 😢 this battle could get the better of me 😖
I had a plague of aptasia in my little red sea 20 cube. Covered the rocks, the back wall, everywhere. Think it came in on a Trochus snail. Only removed with Berghia, and then when all aptasia were gone, a peppermint shrimp has kept the tank free since then. Now I have a plague of bubble algae. Hoping this doesn't turn into a biblical 7 plagues thing.
I got one of those file fish the day I saw my first aiptasia, he ate it within 20 minutes and I literally never saw another one. I kept the aiptasia there just to see if he’d eat it and he sure did.
I'm new to this hobby but I have a question. You mentioned these things have tubes? So how do you tell the difference between them and little feather duster? I think I found one in my tank but there was no tube? Oh no!
If you poke a feather duster, it's feather part (called the crown) will retract very quickly. If you poke an aiptasia, it will retract, but much more slowly. If you're on Facebook, join the AskBRS group and post a picture. We'd be happy to take a look and see if we can get you an ID
Wait... That thing is bad???? Years ago I had a fish-only tank, and one day after a hurricane I found a pretty rock that washed ashore. I added it to my tank and about 6 or 7 of those popped up. I let them there and they never spread or bothered the fish. Some even caugh sinking food. Found them really interesting but since I didn't have coral or other invertebrates for the matter they never were a nuisance...
One critical point people should be aware of when dealing with Aiptasia is that the most common and effective cure is Peppermint shrimp....please note that they will only eat the small ones, so you have to deal with the big ones yourself. What people don't realize is that once the Aiptasia are gone, the peppermint shrimp will often start consuming healthy live corals. Many claim this is the result of misidentified species and that the culprits are not actually true peppermint shrimp. This is is patently false. Not all peppermint shrimp consume corals...they are like people some of whom don't eat meat. But I have had these shrimp destroy many corals so I was forced to set traps to get them back out of the reef tank...and once they are gone, the Aiptasia will likely come back. Its a tough balancing act. There are no easy quick fixes.
My old tank was over run with aipstasia and what we did was get nudibranches they will kill aipstasia until there is no more but they will die when there is no more so you will have to buy more if you get it again but I would say it only takes a couple weeks to kill
I have tried Aiptasia X worked until new little ones started growing everywhere. I tried the File fish, it looked like it worked then the file fish died because that is about all it ate (the other fish were more food aggressive). So now I am using F-Aiptasia, it does seem to work for reducing the numbers. F-Aiptasia is like Randy's idea of using Aiptasia X then adding epoxy. F-Aiptasia you cover the Aiptasia and the F-Aiptasia turns hard. I believe that you need to keep the hard crusted area in the tank undisturbed for a month or two. Because I did disturb the crust a few days after and the Aiptasia returned after a week or so. So the places where I left F-Aiptasia undisturbed seem be staying Aiptasia free. One thing to say GOOD LUCK to anyone who has Aiptasia !
I brought a coral then noticed the pest so the new coral went in the bin to protect the tank my hubby went spare because of the waste of money but I had no hesitation in the bin it went
I shall. Just for fun I did zap one with diluted H2O2 a couple times. Then syphoned it out when it fizzled. Wish your channel was around when I built my 180 reef in the early 90’s. Thanks!
Watched this video, 1 week later got a live rock with aiptasia, glad I watched this video. Rock was pulled from quarantine tank... spread was stopped at giving up live rock....
boy is this timely. I found one aptasia in my sump, and it looks like three sprouting up from my sand bed in my display last night during a water change.
We usually like to add at least a couple so that they can start breeding. We've found that it's highly likely that at least a few of them get picked off by the fish over time, so building up a small population of Berghia works best for us.
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What's your best trick for eradicating aiptasia? Have you made the same mistakes we did?
Bulk Reef Supply Franks Tanks Faiptasia works great nothing has worked for me but this miracle product. I still have it I need to buy more but the areas I’ve hit which were biblical plague amounts have not come back and it’s been a month all my corals are looking happy and healthy now that they aren’t getting stung.
What about berghia nudis? I just noticed aiptasia in my tank that's about 7 months old and I may go this route...
Bulk Reef Supply I was lucky enough to get a peppermint shrimp that ate the only small aiptasia I had.
Kenan Bakin Bergia is your best option, been in the hobby 15 yrs, have had aptasia at least 3 times and berghia ALWAYS does the trick. Only thing is it will die at some point so only get a cpl small ones, especially if it’s a tank less than 75 gallons. They will eat them all just give them time.
I definitely had this problem, but 2 real peppermint shrimp did some MAJOR damage to them. I still had a hunt and peck but nothing compared to what it had been.
I tried everything-only one thing ultimately worked.
PEPPERMINT SHRIMP!
The best part about having aptasia is you no longer worry about getting it. #onSale
Hahaha! That's one way of looking at it!
Aiptasia: the herpes of the reef tank
At least with the herp you get one good time.
I would of went with genital warts but to each his own.
bubble algae is the herpes of the tank
Wild-caught Gulf of Mexico (Florida Keys) Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni, perhaps?) absolutely eradicated my Aiptasia. However, after the aiptasia were gone, they immediately went on to devouring my Euphyllia (Fimbriaphyllia) - I witnessed this first hand investigating the tank at night. I ended up deciding to move the Euphyllia to another tank. They didn't bother any other corals I had in the tank.
Once you have aiptasia either learn to like them or tear down the tank and start over
Mostly have to learn to manage it. Have had it for 7 years in my 180 reef. Never got out of control and so far the best have used is boiling water in a syringe. Even used a high powered laser beam at one point. It burned paper and other things immediately. When I added the shrimp my marine grouper ate them. Ordered LARGE ones and of course received miniature. Another thing that works was soaking the rock in a bucket of vinegar for 30 minutes and all done. But have a LOT of rock and that is expensive but it does work.
This video is 1 year to old, RIP to my beautiful reef tank. Pour some glue on the curb for me boys.
I got some new Chaeto for my refug and there was one on it the next day. I left it because I was gonna take care of it the next day but that morning, there were 4!! I took the chaeto out. Lol
Great video! Recently found one aiptasia on a Cynarina base. After watching this video I will tackle eradicating it this morning! Glad you covered all the topics I've heard about since getting into the hobby.
Glad it was helpful!
Kents Part B from the 2 part dosing completely disintegrates aiptasia instantly (and coral) if you squirt it directly on them. Luckily I had some space between all my aiptasia and corals so this worked great. Proceed with caution. Lemon juice on a few at a time for a couple days will burn them to death also and is less risky.
I’m gonna keep commenting this.... guys! Branch out to the UK / Europe. We NEED you. All your advice and equipment is relevant and needed here, it’s just the voltage/current change on electrical. There’s a couple of really good coral places here that would benefit from your presence here too. Your approach to the hobby and sales/service will change the game here.
Been waiting/hoping for that for years
Dan Lenny I’m sure you can buy it in the u.s and get an adapter and have it shipped over.
@@CloudDayLight probably but it’s just not worth the effort and extra money
I bought 5 peppermint shrimp and added them to my sump for a few days. First I let them get hungry for a couple days. Then I started adding small rocks/frags with aiptasia on them. I wanted to make sure they went for the aiptasia and not the corals as I've heard stories of them nipping at your corals too. Long story short, they went to town on the aiptasia, didn't touch the corals, and got promoted to the display tank. This was last week and I'm already seeing a significant decrease in aiptasia.
WOW! That is an awesome plan! That way they they will be forced to go after them and cant get attacted by any predators! only problem is my sump is only about 10 to 15 gallons and have a few big rocks that wont fit:(
@@karennation3580 think bigger. Pick one of the aiptasia and throw it in the sump.
Never tried anything else, but I added a matted filefish and he went straight at the aiptasia. He's a voracious eater and the pest is gone. He eats frozen food well and two years in, no aiptasia at all. Guess I'm lucky, but I'll take it!
I added 4 peppermint shrimps in 30 gallon. It solved my problem
Can i just take the live rock out of the tank that its on?
Well I am glad youtube recommended this to me. I am new reefer and my Kenya tree has a piece of this on it. I have seen it for last 2 months but didnt realize thats what it is.. =/ I guess I need to just remove it which sucks its one of the only coral I have right now
I have two Aptasia that I keep blasting with aptasia x but they keep coming back, probably had them for a couple of years and luckily they haven’t spread. I’m going to try the Kalwasa and putty you guys mentioned. Thanks for all the advice, love your videos 👍
I do believe there are different varieties of peppermint shrimp. Not all will eat aiptasia and same with the fish options.
Started with just1 in my 7 month old tank, by the time I realized it might become a problem I could see around 10. I ordered aiptasia x and blasted about 15 of them but that only pissed them off and soon I had about 20. I then picked up a file fish and 2 peppermint shrimp from LFS. It took about 4 or 5 days before they got to work but after about 10 days I have none.
There a lots of live options to help eliminate them. I've aiptasia X for a few small one's but the live options help to keep them under control for the long haul.
I added 10 baby nudibranchs about 7 months ago, my entire tank was covered in aiptasia... today there's almost zero...
I used AptasiaX for my couple I've had...saw it...nuked it straight away with ApX. I never let them get a foothold.
Years later never had them come back.
Peppermint shrimp - peppermint shrimp
Please do vermitid snails next please!
There is multiple peppermint shrimp in the industry.
Lysmata wurdemanni
Animal
Description
DescriptionLysmata wurdemanni, commonly known as the peppermint shrimp, is a species of shrimp. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Lysmata wurdemanni
Phylum: Arthropoda
Higher classification: Lysmata
Order: Decapods
Rank: Species
Species: L. wurdemanni.
Peppermint Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni - Aquarium Depotaquariumdepot.com › peppermint-shrimp-lysmata-wur...
The Saltwater Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) is also known as Veined Shrimp and Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp. It is a natural predator of the nuisance anemone- aiptasia, while some peppermint shrimp may have more of a taste for the anemone than others.
MINIMUM TANK SIZE: 30 gallons CARE LEVEL: Moderately Easy
FOOD/DIET: Carnivore
Don't overlook that it can also come on chaeto and anything with a shell - clam, crab, snail, etc.. Live rock and sand, too. Good luck everyone.
Shrimp ate all of mine and then they died. My other shrimp were fine. But the Aiptasia were erradicated. I'm restarting a 710 liter and this time I'm going really slow. One, I'm lazy. Two, I just want to get it really right this time.
50 peppermints wiped my Aiptasia out in about a month in a high flow 200g sps tank. 🤷🏻♂️
I used them in my 80g shallow I think they are eating my corals at night. Aiptasia population is down but maybe with possible coral eating shrimp. They at least pick at it
I got a few from zoa frag I thought I had it really cleaned off but I guess I didn't. I have a few in my tank but before they get out of hand I bought three B nudis to eat them.
I tried the nudis. Worked great in the sump but once they got into the D/T, they became the feast for wrasses
I need help!!!!
Mix up a little zooplankton with aiptasia x or joes juice. They dont reject it if they sense theres food in it. Its saved me a lot of aiptaisa x.
How do you do this? I have reef frenzy and spirulina. Do either of these have zooplankton?
I disliked this video cause the heading implied i already had aptasia so i dont need a lecture on preventatives, that could been a separate video.
Now i feel bad, I do love your content I guess I had a bad day and was in a mood. It was a nit pick
not mentioning at all that filefish very high percentage they start eating coral, copperbands and peppermint shrimp eating coral and anemones as well.
also not mentioning scats, they will clear aiptasia from a tank in one day. some eat coral as well but others are in big displays and are used as rental fish.
Fair point. There are several comments sharing the same sentiment, however we've been pretty fortunate to not have experienced coral pecking from either of those. Likely related to how heavily we feed the tank and just how many aiptasia were there to begin with.
I had that problem with the peppermints. Ran low on aiptasia and started in on my euphyllia. Out they went.
Also, if you have coral in your take, watch out with the file fish. I had to get rid of a file fish as it was nipping at my welso metallic rainbow folded brain. Decision, keep a fish I paid $20 for or keep a coral that is worth $700. Good bye file fish. Besides, it was not touching the aptasia at all.
have had aptasia 3 or 4 times during my career. none for the past five years or so. i've always used 3 or 4 peppermint shrimp, tank is about 120 gallons. They come out at night and in about a month or two they are gone, each time ive used them. have done all the glue stuff etc., but they don't go away. The shrimp love them. don't waste your time with anything else.
Hello, thank you for this video. Any opinions on the Majano Wand? #AskBRStv
As a new reefer I accidentally solved my aiptasia problem by getting a coral banded shrimp and corals that had berghia in them, neither of which I knew were useful for managing aiptasia. Aiptasia was gone within weeks. I got lucky!!
I believe in the aptazia ferry it comes from some where lol .. Not really
I think I wound up using Kalk on the worst of my Aptasiasia, and a copperband in the display ... what can I do about Majanos, though?!
I have had aptasia a few times and introduced Berghia nudibranchs. It takes a while but they definitely work. An excellent site for general information and purchasing them is Reeftown.com
First saltwater tank, purchased a live rock from petco. Noticed this weird anemone on the rock. It looks exactly like aptasia. Removed the rock, I will not be buying my aquarium needs from petco from now on.
"if you buy propogated corals from a reputable propogation facility" I got all my corals from WWC and trusted that i wouldn't get aptasia but here I am.
I just spotted my first one after receiving coral from WWC a month ago. Got me thinking.
Same here. Definitely got mine from wwc.
I would add another line: not understanding corals that can fight aipstasia. You can get galaxea, hydnophora, elegance coral... those can flourish even if you have aipstasia. I’ve gotten to the point I’d rather limit my coral selection than keep worrying about aipstasia to some degree.
Good point!
So you mean not to buy from WWC. Just got 7 frags today. Dipped about 7 aphasia and 2 flatworms that I could see.
I really appreciate the effort you guys put in to educate and share wisdom. It's priceless.
I have a sixth sense for finding them, propably out of fear for them.. I really hate them after loosing to them 20 years ago.. My solution is discovering them in time when there is still a sinle one or two, and act the same minute, no matter if you dont really have time for it.. I have a 1 ml syringe filled with extra strong vinegar. Here in Norway we can get 40% and I think really 15-20 will work. I tip the syringe with the blue ekstra thin needle meant for intramuscular injections, the green meant for adults is just giving to big doses. I just prick them right in the mouth and press, holding the stamp part, not the tube part. If you try to hold it normaly you will miss, these devils are too fast for a normal injection method. That is also why I use the small syringe, since if I miss I havent destroyd my water chemistry, and 1 ml is enough for the strongest biggest hulking aptasia if you hit and fill him. So far in my latest setup 65g cube with mix of real live rock that I knew could have some aptasia I managed to keep them of, just killing 2 babies and its now months since I saw ANY at all.. I learned this trick from an really old reefer who died now from Corona (may his memory be a blessing) and I saw it worked on my old tank, but it was too late when I learned it, they had me cornered.
Tried a whole bunch of things, aiptasia x, F aiptasia, joes juice, nudibrachs, manjo wand. What really killed them off is the peppermint shrimp. I've must of been lucky and got a good hungry batch.
Have you ever noticed the peppermint touching any coral and how long have you had them for
@@carlosmontenegro8501 As of today, I've had a trio in my 65g tall for a month. Two in the display and one in the refugium in the sump. So far they had not bother any corals except for when I spot feed. That's when they steal food.
F Aiptasia...Frank's Tanks. Fort worth Texas. Works the Best quick!
Love that BRS goes into detail about how Aiptasia killing products can actually make the issue worse. I had a system that was at "break down the tank" levels because of those so called "cures". Started off with 10-20 and went to literally hundreds (maybe more) within a few months while using them. I've tried them all and only watched the problem get worse. Never plugged them the way that BRS suggests, but for certain just using the goop made what was initially a nuisance into a near disaster. Berghia nudis did the trick for me. Two orders of nudis cleared out the entire tank of any noticeable Aiptasia. Money well spent and my go to for Aiptasia.
Have used aiptasia x with great success only have one but few weeks later another appears not a real problem at the moment
I found a tiny one on my glass no ida how its got in ther iv not got corul in ther.
Did it possibly come in on live rock?
Heres an ariticle I wrote about diff versions of whats called peppermint shrimp.. www.aquariumtanktools.com/post/peppermint-shrimp-do-they-really-work
Interesting. My tank is over 2 yrs old and I've been battling aiptasia for several months. I've put 15 peppermints in (not all at once) and haven't seen any decrease in aiptasia.
Once my reef got pretty well settled I went ahead and added 3 peppermint shrimp and haven't seen ap yet
Ut-iiiii-litarian Randy!! Lol
Have had small aiptasia outbreaks in three separate tanks. 2-3 peppermints in a fluval 5, two to three weeks , all gone, none seen for 2 years. Aiptasia eating filefish - leather jackets in two other tanks. Gone! Weir on my display was a forest, cleaned in 3 days, none seen anywhere for months. Another one in a 30 long, cleaned up a scattered amount. Never had much luck with copperbands though.
Now we just need a video on how to eradicate Vemetid Snails for good.
5:45 Gwad...... I wish you guys were the angel on my shoulder at the store when I got the bogo sale of coral..... ended up with a leather I felt bad for, ended up having a pyramid snail which killed my 6" clam!!!! $^#%#%
LOVE YOUR ADVICE, wish I heard it sooner.
I have a whole entire tank full of those and actually we love them - Sorry.
Yeah I'm sad they're considered pest cause they look pretty awesome
Glad I'm not the only one. Theres a bunch of corals way more aggressive and rapidily spreading, but we don't go crazy to kill those, we buy them while we exterminate entire tanks to kill aiptasia ahahhah
my filefish nipped my corals i had to remove it pity..
Sorry to hear that. Always a risk, but sometimes it pays off.
I had one or maybe two on a rock so I covered them with super glue and now I have about 15 or so all around the same spot! I dont get it! I did take rock out once and scrub off bubble algae so is it possible I spred it scrubbing out of the tanks and rinsing well with tank water? Nudis always seem to leave one or two behind so I cant seem to ever eradacate them and when I scrubbed the rock I dont think I had the aptaisia at that time either! Franks gets so thick and you end up having to throw away! I think Ill do the joes juice and maybe try thicker glue and then epoxy! . Is BRS glue thicker then super glue? I am also scared of treating that whole area. Is it going to mess with my chemisty(alk)since its basically kalk? Should I not dose soda ash the same day I treat it?
Even if the store "cares", they will have aiptasia in their livestock. They have to sell stock, no matter how much they care. They have to sell stock.
I trained my filefish to eat aiptasia by quarantining it with a rock full of aiptasia I got from a buddy before adding it to the DT. It quickly figured out that they made for a tasty morsel.
I was at a LFS and saw a giant aiptasia in the corner I thought was an anenome I wanted (Im brand new to reefing) I took a pic of it and later saw this video and realized it was a monster 5 inch parasite
Aiptasia X ... the "X" stands for "Multiply"
there’s one particular lfs in my area who likes to keep aipatasia in their fish tank. lol. guess he sells them? he used to have rampant amount in his coral tanks... but i haven’t been there for over a year. lol. and people wonder why he keeps relocating.
Been using the Majano Wand. Hard to reach a few places. Thinking of getting peppermint shrimp.
Everybody hates on Aiptasia X but it worked perfectly for me. That said...next tank I will be curing dry rock instead of buying live and dipping everything that goes into the tank
I had a tank full of aptasia. The more I tried to eradicate them the more they multiplied. I was disgusted and ready to give up. My last shot was an Australian Strippy. He wasn’t cheap but, in 4 weeks I have ZERO aptasia and he’s only a little guy. He is my absolute hero and I will always keep one in my tank. Took forever to find one but we’ll worth the effort and the cost.
I purchased a ricordea on line and dipped it. 4 months later an aptasia popped up out of no where. I’m like what the hec!! It is now in a super glue tomb!
What worked best for me was a raccoon butterfly. You need to watch it, obviously, when the aiptasia are gone, because it may start to go after your corals.
You only need one thing to defeat an outbreak: Berghia Nudibranch
I just recently eradicated it from 3 tanks(all connected) and it took a long time. I tried Joe's Juice and Aptasia X both of these killed and spread it. I tried peppermint shrimp, but didn't realize the Neon Dottyback in the DT was killing them. I also got a Copperband , but my Sailfin & Purple tangs would casually bully it and died after 3 months without touching any aptasia. Went to LFS to purchase a Filefish and the guy told me he didn't recommend it and that I was better off leaving the aptasia in the tank(wtf). I was so discouraged the aptasia got outta control and killed well over $1000 in coral. I was ready to just shut it down and then I found Berghia Nudibranchs. I bought 7 nudibranchs let them run its course. It was very hard to look at the tank, but then it just slowly started to disappear and its finally gone after 4 months!!!
Yeah the big problem is how to find those damn nudibranchs
Another issue - it seems everything bloody eats nudis! Brittlestars, Bristleworms, amphipods eat nudi eggs.... 😢 this battle could get the better of me 😖
Will aptasia x work on polys I have them growing like weeds and don’t want to try and remove them cause of poly toxins
We haven't tried Aiptasia X on paly or zoas. That said, we have used F-Aptasia and it seems to work well. Just do very small sections at a time.
I had a plague of aptasia in my little red sea 20 cube. Covered the rocks, the back wall, everywhere. Think it came in on a Trochus snail. Only removed with Berghia, and then when all aptasia were gone, a peppermint shrimp has kept the tank free since then.
Now I have a plague of bubble algae. Hoping this doesn't turn into a biblical 7 plagues thing.
the aiptasia are call grass sea well i i dont know how to taps yea i dont know
Have a single peppermint in the display never seen a single one, sump is literally covered in them
There is only one lfs with a smal coral tank with aptasia
So I don't have much of a choice
If you're not happy with your LFS' selection, there are a ton of fabulous online vendors too
I covered a head with epoxy and the next day a new baby was sprouted at the edge of the epoxy.
I have a filefish for my tank. Circle of life those pest!!!
On my first SW setup, I remember being excited when an aiptasia showed up! I was happy to have something"Free" growing.. That excitment ended quickly!
Oh wow!
I felt the same way about the "bonus" mantis shrimp that came on the first piece of live rock I ever bought.
chuckschilling I had one of those also!! It destroyed my cleanup crew in about a week!! Never could catch it! Tore the whole thing down and sold it! 😢
I got one of those file fish the day I saw my first aiptasia, he ate it within 20 minutes and I literally never saw another one. I kept the aiptasia there just to see if he’d eat it and he sure did.
I'm new to this hobby but I have a question.
You mentioned these things have tubes? So how do you tell the difference between them and little feather duster? I think I found one in my tank but there was no tube? Oh no!
If you poke a feather duster, it's feather part (called the crown) will retract very quickly. If you poke an aiptasia, it will retract, but much more slowly. If you're on Facebook, join the AskBRS group and post a picture. We'd be happy to take a look and see if we can get you an ID
Get a couple peppermint shrimp. Problem solved...
Until they go for your expensive hammers and torches
False not all peppermint eat aptasia
Berghia Nudibranch
This is going to maybe sound insane but I'm really intrigued by someone making a Parasite thriving tank with crazy aiptasia and all weird stuff.
That's what is happening to me without even trying 😅
@@FidelTrask :)
Wait... That thing is bad????
Years ago I had a fish-only tank, and one day after a hurricane I found a pretty rock that washed ashore. I added it to my tank and about 6 or 7 of those popped up. I let them there and they never spread or bothered the fish. Some even caugh sinking food. Found them really interesting but since I didn't have coral or other invertebrates for the matter they never were a nuisance...
Unfortunately for most reefers, they spread quickly and will sting neighboring corals. Really interesting creatures, just not great for reef tanks.
One critical point people should be aware of when dealing with Aiptasia is that the most common and effective cure is Peppermint shrimp....please note that they will only eat the small ones, so you have to deal with the big ones yourself. What people don't realize is that once the Aiptasia are gone, the peppermint shrimp will often start consuming healthy live corals. Many claim this is the result of misidentified species and that the culprits are not actually true peppermint shrimp. This is is patently false. Not all peppermint shrimp consume corals...they are like people some of whom don't eat meat. But I have had these shrimp destroy many corals so I was forced to set traps to get them back out of the reef tank...and once they are gone, the Aiptasia will likely come back. Its a tough balancing act. There are no easy quick fixes.
The file fish I have likes to eat Zoa's, be careful.
My old tank was over run with aipstasia and what we did was get nudibranches they will kill aipstasia until there is no more but they will die when there is no more so you will have to buy more if you get it again but I would say it only takes a couple weeks to kill
I have tried Aiptasia X worked until new little ones started growing everywhere. I tried the File fish, it looked like it worked then the file fish died because that is about all it ate (the other fish were more food aggressive). So now I am using F-Aiptasia, it does seem to work for reducing the numbers. F-Aiptasia is like Randy's idea of using Aiptasia X then adding epoxy. F-Aiptasia you cover the Aiptasia and the F-Aiptasia turns hard. I believe that you need to keep the hard crusted area in the tank undisturbed for a month or two. Because I did disturb the crust a few days after and the Aiptasia returned after a week or so. So the places where I left F-Aiptasia undisturbed seem be staying Aiptasia free. One thing to say GOOD LUCK to anyone who has Aiptasia !
find one. lock on target. super glue the B@$8@##. one at a time. i have not seen one in 2 years.
I brought a coral then noticed the pest so the new coral went in the bin to protect the tank my hubby went spare because of the waste of money but I had no hesitation in the bin it went
Blue face angel works great but also eats zoos and clams
I shall. Just for fun I did zap one with diluted H2O2 a couple times. Then syphoned it out when it fizzled. Wish your channel was around when I built my 180 reef in the early 90’s. Thanks!
Watched this video, 1 week later got a live rock with aiptasia, glad I watched this video. Rock was pulled from quarantine tank... spread was stopped at giving up live rock....
I agree with this entire video. And we know Nevis because of the BRS160 series as well as my own experience.
I never use the frag plugs that my frags come on!
boy is this timely. I found one aptasia in my sump, and it looks like three sprouting up from my sand bed in my display last night during a water change.
1 berghia nudibranch for a 1000 gallons is all you need.
We usually like to add at least a couple so that they can start breeding. We've found that it's highly likely that at least a few of them get picked off by the fish over time, so building up a small population of Berghia works best for us.
I used peppermint shrimp. They ate it all up!
I bought a file fish. That was that.